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2016/FEB/19
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Within the Toronto Public Library system, considered to be the busiest urban library system in the world, no library is bigger than the Toronto Reference Library. Completed in 1977 and designed by...
2016/JAN/30
Canada has a love for libraries. In Toronto alone, more people visit the Toronto public library system every year than the top ten most popular attractions combined – this includes Air Canada...
2016/JAN/11
“Take away all unnecessary decorations, overmantels, over-counters, partitions, mock marble pillars and large hallways, and plan a well-proportioned room with books on the walls, small and few...
Of the 111 libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie in Ontario, none was larger (or more expensive) than Toronto’s first purpose-built central reference library at the corner of St. George and...
2016/FEB/03
“We are not committed to any particular style of buildings, but only to a certain spirit…. It is a spirit of appropriateness and beauty, which gives the kind of aesthetic stimulation and...
2016/JAN/26
“The Library, too, here to be seen, noble in its dimensions and aspect, must, even independently of its contents, tend to create a love of legal study and research.” Henry Scadding...
2016/FEB/08
As cherished civic landmarks, the demolition of libraries is always a polemic issue. More often than not, the demolition is justified by the perceived obsolesce of a library’s physical...
2016/JAN/19
“Not only has the building never looked better; many hope it will be a harbinger of the good things to come to a part of town where that has been rare.” Christopher Hume, Architecture...
2021/OCT/04
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Location: Whitby Date of Completion: 2005 Architect: Shore Tilbe Irwin and Partners (now Perkins+Will) Nominated by: Lorne Coe, MPP (Whitby) By establishing a dynamic relationship between...